On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:07:26 +0100 Santiago Romero <srom...@servicom2000.com> wrote:
> A question ... what' the way to make this patch to be included in >Ubuntu Server "postfix" packages? > > I mean, should I submit your message+patch to the package maintainers >of Ubuntu / Debian / Redhat so that new "postfix" packages with "the >bug" corrected are released as updates for users? > > Or ... you just publish the patch / bug somewhere and then the > package >maintainers update their sources automatically without we or you >needing to contact them? :? > > I can patch postfix's sources, but then I loose Ubuntu package > security >updates and will force me to maintain postfix from sources since this >moment. The best way would be your patch to be integrated in postfix >and new "security" postfix packages to be released by package >maintainers, but I don't know how to "force" that. In a perfect world, the program maintainers would know about the patch and take steps to correct their package/port or whatever. You might want to contact the maintainer of Postfix for your Distro and see if they are planning on updating the package/port. Usually, they do get a little annoyed if you start bugging them 5 seconds after the patch is released. Some of them actually have day jobs. -- Gerard postfix.u...@yahoo.com TO REPORT A PROBLEM see http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail TO (UN)SUBSCRIBE see http://www.postfix.org/lists.html Cheese -- milk's leap toward immortality. Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"
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